No. 1987: 9th Birthday Special: Word Weirding

Jon: {holding a cake} Happy birthday, Garfield!
Garfield: That sure is a lot of candles.
Garfield: {blowing out candles} Oh well, I should have a birthday to be happy, I guess.
Garfield: As opposed to the alternative.

The author writes:

I always found the wording of this strip to be weird in its original form, so I changed it around to make it even weirder.